CCAM UCLEM model output for: Climate change impact on energy demand in coupled building-urban-atmosphere simulations across the 21st century v1.0

This data is single column model output from the Urban Climate and Energy Model (UCLEM) + the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) for Melbourne, Australia. The data is used in the following study: Climate change impact on energy demand in coupled building-urban-atmosphere simulations.

NetCDF outputs record surface variables at half-hour intervals for the 2x6 century-scale simulations under RCP 8.5. Recorded variables include radiation and turbulent heat fluxes, net storage heat flux, anthropogenic heat fluxes (including heating and cooling fluxes separately), internal air temperatures, precipitation, surface pressure, boundary layer height, cloud cover and 40m air temperature, humidity and wind velocity.
The dataset is made up of two experiments: control and risingAC. The first experiment holds all urban parameters fixed to 2000 levels in order to isolate climate impact. The second raises the proportion of internal spaces with installed air conditioning from 25% to 67% across the 21st century. 

The simulations were run by Mathew Lipson from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science as part of its research program "The role of land surface forcing and feedbacks for regional climate"